In mathematics, the Babenko–Beckner inequality (after Konstantin I. Babenko [ru] and William E. Beckner) is a sharpened form of the Hausdorff–Young inequality having applications to uncertainty principles in the Fourier analysis of L^p spaces. The (q, p)-norm of the n-dimensional Fourier transform is defined to be

In 1961, Babenko found this norm for even integer values of q. Finally, in 1975, using Hermite functions as eigenfunctions of the Fourier transform, Beckner proved that the value of this norm for all ${\displaystyle q\geq 2}$ is

Thus we have the Babenko–Beckner inequality that

To write this out explicitly, (in the case of one dimension,) if the Fourier transform is normalized so that

then we have

or more simply

Throughout this sketch of a proof, let

(Except for q, we will more or less follow the notation of Beckner.)